PHOTO: Fulton County Sheriff Al Roork
Fulton County Sheriff Al Roork announced Friday that a 19-year investigation into the disappearance of a mother and her child has been declared a double murder.
Authorities believe Angela Mack and her 4-year-old son, Thomas Michael “Mickey” Rettew, were killed by Clarence Krusen at his Alton, Missouri, farm in December of 2002.
Clarence Krusen and his wife, Barbara, had been caring for Mickey Rettew while his mother was in California. Clarence Krusen allegedly killed both Angela Mack and Mickey Rettew when Mack returned to the farm to pick her son up, authorities said. Clarence Krusen then destroyed their bodies in a furnace attached to the farmhouse, authorities believe.